Noah: Is this a good movie? Is it good ancient history?

[Kbertsche]

The movie does not directly contradict the Bible but in a few minimal matters, but adds a lot (a lot a lot) of themes from elsewhere in the Bible, from a modern and postmodern interpretive perspectives, and, yes, from the Book of Enoch, as I noted earlier. If you like such reinterpretations, you may indeed like this movie. I went back and read the Hebrew text after seeing this movie and had to admit that what some are seeing as extreme license would actually be perfectly acceptable from a Jewish midrashic perspective. (Warning: Christian fundamentalists and modernists do not generally appreciate a Jewish midrashic perspective on the Bible.). I will not yet speak about the rock monsters. ;)

Brian Mattson makes an interesting case that much of the movie's content comes from the Kabbalah and from Gnostic writings:
http://drbrianmattson.com/journal/20...-for-the-devil

[robrecht]

You really like Glenn Beck?

[robrecht]

Feminine wiles of the daughters of Eve have no effect on me.






























Who am I kidding. I'm a sucker for a woman's tears. But I'm still not going to talk about the rock monsters yet. Try to cope, it's not because I'm being mean to you, but I just don't want to give anything away yet.

[Teallaura]

Quit being mean to me.

[robrecht]

Who isn't?

Tubal Cain, for one, and anyone that does not want to hear his side of the story. I'm not sure yet about you.

[Teallaura]

Who isn't?

[robrecht]

Does indicate a significant bias, however.

Oh, yes, indeed. I am definitely on God's side!

[Teallaura]

Does indicate a significant bias, however.

[robrecht]

You only say that because you're unfair.

So. Doesn't mean it ain't true.

[Teallaura]

You only say that because you're unfair.

[robrecht]

... derisively!

[robrecht]

I'm reasonably sure you're not God.

I'm absolutely sure that I'm not God, but, of course, I never said that I was. Just commenting on your complaint of unfairness, which does indeed rise to the throne of God ...

















































... only to be laughed at! ;)

[Teallaura]

I'm reasonably sure you're not God.

[robrecht]

No fair!

Careful. Tubal Cain didn't think God was fair, and look what happened to him!

[Teallaura]

No fair!